LETHAL WEAPON 5---director Richard Donner commented on the status of the sequel, “And I’m ready to do 5. It’s called LETHAL FINALE. It’s very dark. And we were all set to go and now Warner Bros. is doing their old-fashioned tricks. Not Warner Bros., there’s this guy who runs the studio who’s great but they have these people in the legal department who do the negotiating in the most counter-productive way. They should be sent to a studio and work with the producers and directors and actors, and learn what makes a film, and then negotiate. But it’s just embarrassing. And it’s too bad, because there’s a wonderful writer named Channing Gibson, who wrote 4 for me, and we have a really great story. It is dark, but I wanted to end it on an emotional note, and I don’t think it’s gonna happen. It’s heartbreaking.”

KILL BILL---Uma Thurman released a video showing her in a car wreck scene from the movie in which she suffered permanent injuries. Thurman wanted a stunt driver to perform the scene, but Quentin Tarantino insisted she should do the scene after assuring her it was safe, “Quentin came in my trailer and didn’t like to hear no, like any director. He was furious because I’d cost them a lot of time. But I was scared. He said: ‘I promise you the car is fine. It’s a straight piece of road.’” He persuaded her to do it, and instructed: “‘Hit 40 miles per hour or your hair won’t blow the right way and I’ll make you do it again.’ But that was a deathbox that I was in. The seat wasn’t screwed down properly. It was a sand road and it was not a straight road.” She added, “The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me… I felt this searing pain and thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m never going to walk again."' After leaving the hospital, she said, “Quentin and I had an enormous fight, and I accused him of trying to kill me. And he was very angry at that, I guess understandably, because he didn’t feel he had tried to kill me.” Thurman asked to see footage of the crash, but Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein's Miramax studio refused unless she gave up her right to sue. Thurman declined the offer. She gave information of the incident to police and after 15 years of persistence, Tarantino gave her the footage, “Quentin finally atoned by giving it to me after 15 years, right? Not that it matters now, with my permanently damaged neck and my screwed-up knees.” Thurman's comments were part of an interview in which she also talked being another victim of sexual predator Weinstein.

I like that the stunts in Mission Impossible look real, with real helicopters and no obvious, horrible greenscreen. Cruise may be crackers but he goes all out on these Mission Impossible films. I'd be interested in seeing it at the pictures maybe. No to the rest, but maybe Avengers on DVD and Solo on telly.

In Skyscraper it would be great if The Rock didn't make that jump and it was the final shot of the film.

If somebody forced me to drive a dodgy car on a dodgy road that resulted in some messed up injuries to me, I wouldn't be waiting 15 YEARS to make those fuckers pay. What world do these crazy fucked up people live in (rhetorical).

If somebody forced me to drive a dodgy car on a dodgy road that resulted in some messed up injuries to me, I wouldn't be waiting 15 YEARS to make those fuckers pay. What world do these crazy fucked up people live in (rhetorical).